The Library’s Online Research Center and Reading Room Pages: A New Look for Powerful Portals
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Learn about some of the changes to the home pages of the Library's Reading Rooms.
Posted in: Teaching Tools
Category: Teaching Tools
Application Deadline Reminder: Summer 2023 Professional Development at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Join us for our 2023 on-site professional development activities.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Make Local Connections with Primary Sources from Your State
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Take a look at primary sources from your state and see how you can use them to engage your students.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights, Teaching Tools
Learning from Home with Theodore Roosevelt and Library of Congress Collections
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore engaging access points to enrich learning at home with the Library of Congress collections.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Lesson Ideas, Teaching Tools
New Virtual Student Workshops
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Learn more about the Library of Congress virtual workshops for students.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Tools
Primary Source Set Connections: Child Labor Across Primary Source Sets and the Library’s Collections
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Use primary source sets to teach about child labor in the United States.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Teaching Tools
Expanding Student Understanding of Slavery in America by Exploring an Arabic Muslim Slave Narrative
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
In the January-February 2019 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article discusses the Life of Omar ibn Said, the only known extant narrative written in Arabic by an enslaved person in the United States. Analyzing this unique manuscript provides students with an opportunity to expand their understanding of some of the people who were brought to the United States from Africa to be enslaved. How educated were they? What did they believe?
Posted in: African American History, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Teaching Tools, World History
The League of Nations: Conflicting Opinions in Editorial Cartoons
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
One hundred years ago, on January 25, 1919, the delegates to the Paris Peace Conference approved a proposal to create the League of Nations. Nearly a year later, on January 16, 1920, the League held its first meeting with its stated principal mission of maintaining world peace.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Teaching Tools, World History
Poetry and Primary Sources
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Poets compose verse to celebrate love, mourn losses, and inspire action. To mark National Poetry Month this year, we revisit past posts about poetry and strategies for teaching poetry:
Posted in: Poetry and Literature, Teaching Tools